Almost every Halloween a cold front moves into Colorado Springs, and this year was no exception. It began to snow late last night and was still snowing when I awoke. My Mom told me it was a snow day for my brother and sister’s school district, as well as pretty much every other district in town.
UCCS didn’t cancel classes for some reason. I decided that attending my physical anthropology class wasn't worth risking death (or worse: damaging my car), so I stayed home. My Dad drove my car to a mechanic to have snow tires put on, and he was gone for a very long time. The roads were so bad that it took him over twenty minutes to get to Research parkway from our house! On most days I can make it in about five minutes. Right now he and Joe are at the mechanics’ buying snow tires for two of our other vehicles.
The snow is not very deep overall, but the streets and sidewalks are covered in thick layers of ice. Our window wells collected some impressive drifts:
My bedroom window
Family room window
My dogs have enjoyed playing in the snow this morning. When Spanky stepped outside after her breakfast, she missed a step and landed in a deep drift.
Spanky pretends that she's a snowshoe hare
Rascal prefers a warm bed
3 comments:
snow tires? That takes away all the sport.
Josh
That's true, but I made things a bit more challenging for myself tonight (unintentionally): my contacts still have not arrived, so I had to drive wearing my crappy old glasses. I couldn't see hardly any details on the road before I was right on top of them, so I repeatedly hit patches of ice that I could have easily avoided had I been wearing contacts. Also, I stopped for gas and turned off my headlights as I filled up . . . then I forgot to turn them back on again until I had driven for about five minutes on Union. Two reasons for that mistake: I had just left work and I was exhausted, and also the dash lights on my new car are always illuminated, and I'm used to driving vehicles with headlight & dash light controls combined. Yes, I'm a goof. I thought the cars around me were acting strangely (giving me plenty of room, not getting too close). I'm just glad a police officer didn't spot me. This isn't the first time I've gone into accidental "stealth mode" in my new car. I need to be more careful.
If it makes you feel any better, I got pulled over tonight because I did not completely clean the snow from my car before driving. I tried to explain to the officer how the less you can see, the more fun it is, but he did not go for it (just kidding). He was actually pretty nice, but he did stay there until I cleaned off the rest of my car.
Josh
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